Song or Melody Generator Circuit using IC UM66TXX

Melody/Music circuits are used in greeting cards, door bells, alarms etc and in each of these applications we are acquiring different music as output. Ever wondered how? and would you believe if i say that all the above applications are done by a single IC with three pins. Yes UM66TXX is the IC employed in any kind of miniature musical or melody generator circuit.

The above shown circuit was a “Happy Birthday to you” melody generator circuit where UM66T08 forms its backbone. Now you can wish any person on their birthday as a Electronics Engineer in style using this above circuit. Cool isn’t it? Lets move into the description about the working components of the system.

IC UM66TXX SERIES:

The UM66TXX series is a CMOS LSI designed specifically for use in melody, tone generation and such circuits. It consists of a on-chip ROM programmed with a particular music or tone to give the musical performance to the user. This IC consumes only low power since it was produced by CMOS technology. The tone produced depends on the last two digits of the IC. Here are the list of some common tone and their equivalent numbers.

UM66T01 – Jingle bells + Santa is coming to town + We wish you a merry xmas

WORKING OF MELODY GENERATOR CIRCUIT:

The working of the circuit is simple and straightforward. I have used UM66T08 a Happy Birthday Tone generator IC in the circuit and you can substitute with any other ICs in the above list. The operating voltage of the circuit is around 3v so i have used a 3v battery to power the entire unit above.

The output of this IC was then fed into the base of the transistor to drive the speaker connected to the collector of the Transistor Q1. A NPN transistor BC548 works fine here and a resistor of 4.7k was used to limit the current to the base of the transistor.

Daksith, The UM66TX chip is preprogrammed with the listed music in the above table. You cannot program your music in to it. If that’s the one you want to do you may wanna with an MCU and interface with SD card and then play tunes in it Or MCU standalone can play simple tunes